The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7919-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils' dump_dwarf_section function could be manipulated to perform an out-     of-bounds read. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting     in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-11081)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. A local attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu     16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-11082)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. A local attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 25.10.
    (CVE-2025-11083)

    It was discovered that certain GNU binutils functions could be manipulated to perform out-of-bounds reads.
    A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU binutils to crash, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2025-11412, CVE-2025-11413, CVE-2025-11414)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils' _bfd_x86_elf_late_size_sections function could be manipulated to     perform an out-of-bounds read. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU binutils to     crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,     Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04, and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-11494)

    It was discovered that GNU binutils' elf_x86_64_relocate_section function could be manipulated to cause a     heap-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU binutils to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10.
    (CVE-2025-11495)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 / 25.10 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-7919-1)

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